“Not every Congressional Republican is a MAGA Republican”: Biden clarifies his remarks AGAIN, saying the “extreme” GOP group “decided to lead us backwards after divisive ‘Soul of the Nation’ speech.”
- President Joe Biden reiterated his insistence that he was not targeting all Republicans when he criticized the pro-Donald Trump GOP faction
- Similar comments followed during Monday speeches in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania to honor American workers on Labor Day
- The president first sparked anger on the right when he suggested Trump supporters believe in “semi-fascism” late last month
- It’s part of a fiery return to campaigning for Biden, who has about two months left until the November midterm elections
President Joe Biden has returned fiery to the campaign trail with less than two months until the November midterm elections
President Joe Biden on Tuesday again clarified his verbal attacks on MAGA Republicans, insisting they are separate from the “mainstream” GOP lawmakers he has worked with in Congress.
The White House has faced criticism from the right since late last month, when the President likened the beliefs of Donald Trump and his supporters to “semi-fascism.”
It was further intensified after Biden’s impassioned speech at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall on the battle for the “soul of the nation.”
“Let me be clear: Not every Congressional Republican is a MAGA Republican. I know because I’ve had the opportunity to work with these mainstream Republicans,” Biden posted on his official Twitter account on Tuesday.
“But an extreme group of MAGA Republicans in Congress have chosen to lead us backwards. Together we can choose a different path.”
The following are nearly identical statements during a Labor Day speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Early in his address, Biden preached the need for “unity, hope and optimism” while warning that “others” were working to forge “a nation of division and violence and hatred.”
“I want to be very clear up front: Not every Republican is a MAGA Republican. Not every Republican subscribes to this extreme ideology. I know this because I’ve had the opportunity to work with mainstream Republicans throughout my career,” the president said Monday.
“But the extreme MAGA Republicans in Congress have chosen to walk backwards – full of anger, violence, hatred and division.”
A cornerstone of all of Biden’s midterm speeches so far has been criticism of Donald Trump and his supporters
Biden’s Presidential Twitter account often includes important takeaways from his public statements.
On Monday night, he made it clear he would continue his attacks on the Midterm Campaign Trail against former President Donald Trump’s GOP allies.
“We understand something that MAGA Republicans in Congress don’t understand. Wall Street didn’t build this country. Working people did that,” Biden wrote on Twitter.
And though he retracted his impassioned comments for the first half of his Wisconsin speech, Biden later taunted MAGA Republicans as “Trumpies” and called one heckler an “idiot.”
“Democrats, Republicans and mainstream – Republicans and independents, we must be stronger and more determined and more determined to save American democracy,” the president pleaded over the excitement.
“And the MAGA Republicans — that guy out there — are destroying democracy. Because democracy is at stake.”
Biden’s Presidential Twitter account also targeted the ex-President’s supporters, although Biden indicated that he was only referring to those serving in Congress
Later, at a second event in Pittsburgh, Biden ripped into MAGA again, saying of Trump, “It’s clear where he wants to look. It’s clear what the new MAGA Republicans are like, calling them “very extreme.”
“You can’t call yourself a democracy if you don’t count the votes that people have rightfully cast,” Biden said.
The 79-year-old leader has escalated his rhetoric against the former president and his allies in recent days since making a fiery debut on the Midterm Campaign Trail in Bethesda, Maryland, late last month.
At a private event with local donors, the President likened MAGA Republican beliefs to semi-fascism and received immediate backlash from all right-wing factions.
“What we’re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy,” Biden said at the time.
“It’s not just Trump. It’s the whole philosophy that’s – I’ll say something: It’s like semi-fascism – that underlies it.’